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THE NEW YORK SUBWAY: ITS CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT By Interborough Rapid
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- Fordham University Press
- ISBN-10
- 0823213196
- ISBN
- 9780823213191
- Book Title
- New York Subway : Its Construction and Equipment
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Item Length
- 11 in
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 1991
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Transportation, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Railroads / History, Public Transportation
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 8.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 150 Pages
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This is a complete facsimile of the 1904 edition originally published by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to commemorate the opening of New York's first subway line. From the perspective of both urban history and the history of transportation, this book is an important primary source. Building the city's first subway in the early years of the twentieth century required delicate collaboration between public and private interests and called for the expenditure of considerable sums of both public and private money. The book introduces us to Abram S. Hewitt, a late nineteenth-century mayor of New York City. It was Hewitt who realized that, while private capital alone had been perfectly adequate for building elevated rapid transit lines in New York as early as the 1870s, the more costly construction of underground rapid transit lines was far beyond the ability of private corporations to finance. Hewitt set in motion a chain of events that sanctioned the use of public funds for subway construction, with the completed facility then to be leased to a private company for day-to-day operation. The private firm that emerged, both to build and to operate the first subway in New York, was called the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, a name that would later be rendered more crisply as the IRT. The City of New York and the Interborough Rapid transit Company inaugurated service over the city's first subway line on Thursday afternoon, October 27, 1904. Mayor George B. McClellan, son of the Civil War general, took the controls of the first ceremonial train at City Hall Station in downtown Manhattan and headed north. In one way or another, the subway has been going ever since. The book also presents important tabular and statistical information, as well as clear and concise narrative descriptions of technical details.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
0823213196
ISBN-13
9780823213191
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1021579
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
New York Subway : Its Construction and Equipment
Number of Pages
150 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1991
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Railroads / History, Public Transportation
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
90-085874
Edition Description
Reprint
Copyright Date
1991
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